Bulletin for Sunday, January 9, 2022

Multiplied

Your love is like radiant diamonds
Bursting inside us we cannot contain
Your love will surely come find us
Like blazing wild fires singing Your name

God of mercy sweet love of mine
I have surrendered to Your design
May this offering stretch across the skies
And these Halleluiahs be multiplied

Your love is like radiant diamonds
Bursting inside us we cannot contain
Your love will surely come find us
Like blazing wild fires singing Your name

God of mercy sweet love of mine
I have surrendered to Your design
May this offering stretch across the skies
And these Halleluiahs be multiplied

God of mercy sweet love of mine
I have surrendered to Your design
May this offering stretch across the skies
And these Halleluiahs be multiplied
And these Halleluiahs be multiplied

Oh Our Lord

Oh oh oh our Lord
Oh oh oh our Lord
How majestic is Your name
in all the Earth

We behold the breaking dawn
The light that shines over everyone
We look to You
We long for You oh Lord

We behold the rising sun
The earth awakes Your hope has come
We look to You
We long for You oh Lord

Oh oh oh our Lord
Oh oh oh our Lord
How majestic is Your name
in all the Earth

We behold the falling rain
Like waters rise – flood this place
We reach for You
We cling to You oh Lord

Oh oh oh our Lord
Oh oh oh our Lord
How majestic is Your name
in all the Earth

Oh oh oh our Lord
Oh oh oh our Lord
How majestic is Your name
in all the Earth

Oh Your name is a light in the darkness
Oh Your name is the word of truth
Oh Your name – Oh Your name
(repeat x3)

Oh oh oh our Lord
Oh oh oh our Lord
How majestic is Your name
in all the Earth

Oh oh oh our Lord
Oh oh oh our Lord
How majestic is Your name
in all the Earth

We behold the breaking dawn
The light that shines over everyone
We look to You
We long for You oh Lord

We behold the rising sun
The earth awakes Your hope has come
We look to You
We long for You oh Lord

Oh oh oh our Lord
Oh oh oh our Lord
How majestic is Your name
in all the Earth

Oh oh oh our Lord
Oh oh oh our Lord
How majestic is Your name
in all the Earth

Jireh

I’ll never be more loved than I am right now
Wasn’t holding You up
So there’s nothing I can do to let You down
It doesn’t take a trophy to make You proud
I’ll never be more loved than I am right now

Going through a storm but I won’t go down
I hear Your voice
Carried in the rhythm of the wind
to call me out

You would cross an ocean
so I wouldn’t drown
You’ve never been closer
than You are right now

You are Jireh, You are enough
Jireh, You are enough
And I will be content in every circumstance
You are Jireh, You are enough

Forever enough
Always enough
More than enough
(repeat)

Don’t wanna forget how I feel right now
On the mountaintop
I can see so clear what it’s all about
So stay by my side when the sun goes down
Don’t wanna forget how I feel right now

You are Jireh, You are enough
Jireh, You are enough
I will be content in every circumstance
You are Jireh, You are enough

Forever enough
Always enough
More than enough
(repeat)

I’m already loved
I’m already chosen
I know who I am
I know what You’ve spoken

I’m already loved
More than I could imagine
And that is enough

I’m already loved
I’m already chosen
I know who I am
I know what You’ve spoken

I’m already loved
More than I could imagine
And that is enough

You are Jireh, You are enough
Jireh, You are enough
I will be content in every circumstance
You are Jireh, You are enough

Forever enough
Always enough
More than enough
(repeat)

At the Table

I went the ways of wayward winds
In a world of trouble and sin
Walked a long and crooked mile
Behind a million rank and file
Forgot where I came from
Somewhere back when I was young
I was a good man’s child

‘Cause I lost some nameless things
My innocence flew away from me
She had to hide her face from my desire
To embrace forbidden fire
But at night I dream
She’s singing over me
Oh, oh, my child

Come on home, home to me
And I will hold you in my arms
And joyful be

There will always, always be
A place for you at my table
Return to me

Wondering where I might begin
Hear a voice upon the wind
She’s singing faint but singing true
“Son, there ain’t nothing you can do
But listen close and follow me
I’ll take you where you’re meant to be
Just don’t lose faith”

So I put my hand upon the plow
Wipe the sweat up from my brow
Plant the good seed along the way
As I look forward to the day
When at last I see
My Father run to me
Singing “oh, my child”

Come on home, home to me
And I will hold you in my arms
And joyful be

There will always, always be
A place for you at my table
Return to me

Come on home, home to me
And I will hold you in my arms
And joyful be

There will always, always be
A place for you at my table
A place for you at my table
A place for you at my table
Return to me

Acts 8:14-17
14 When the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted the word of God, they sent Peter and John to Samaria. 15 When they arrived, they prayed for the new believers there that they might receive the Holy Spirit, 16 because the Holy Spirit had not yet come on any of them; they had simply been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. 17 Then Peter and John placed their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.

Luke 3:15-17, 21-22
15 The people were waiting expectantly and were all wondering in their hearts if John might possibly be the Messiah. 16 John answered them all, “I baptize you with water. But one who is more powerful than I will come, the straps of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. 17 His winnowing fork is in his hand to clear his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his barn, but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire”…

21 When all the people were being baptized, Jesus was baptized too. And as he was praying, heaven was opened 22 and the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven: “You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased.”
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Reader: The word of the Lord.
Ekklesia: Thanks be to God.

End of History Illusion
(C.S. Lewis – “Chronological Snobbery”)

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WATER

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Isaiah 43:1-2:
“Do not fear, for I have redeemed you;
I have summoned you by name; you are mine.
2 When you pass through the waters,
I will be with you;
and when you pass through the rivers,
they will not sweep over you.

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Psalm 29:3:
3 The voice of the Lord is over the waters;
the God of glory thunders,
the Lord thunders over the mighty waters.

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Luke 3:16-17:
16 John answered them all, “I baptize you with water. But one who is more powerful than I will come, the straps of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. 17 His winnowing fork is in his hand to clear his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his barn, but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire”…

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Luke 3:21-22:
21 When all the people were being baptized, Jesus was baptized too. And as he was praying, heaven was opened 22 and the Holy Spirit descended on him in bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven: “You are my Son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased.”

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Genesis – Waters of Creation
Exodus – God’s Parts the Waters
Joshua – Crossing the Jordan

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(1) Water is the source of New Life.
(2) Only God can control water.

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There are times when we can do all that a fellow creature needs if only he will trust us. In getting a dog out of a trap, in extracting a thorn from a child’s finger, in teaching a boy to swim or rescuing one who can’t, in getting a frightened beginner over a nasty place on a mountain, the one fatal obstacle may be their distrust. We are asking them to trust us in the teeth of their sense, their imagination, and their intelligence.

We ask them to believe that what is painful will relieve their pain and that what looks dangerous is their only safety. We ask them to accept apparent impossibilities: that moving the paw farther back into the trap is the way to get it out – that hurting the finger very much more will stop the finger hurting – that water which is obviously permeable will resist and support the body – that to go higher and onto a more exposed ledge is the way not to fall….

Now to accept the Christian propositions is ipso facto to believe that we are to God, always, as that dog or child or bather or mountain climber was to us, only very much more so… If human life is in fact ordered by a beneficent being whose knowledge of our real needs and of the way in which they can be satisfied infinitely exceeds our own, we must expect a priori that His operations will often appear to us far from beneficent and far from wise, and that it will be our highest prudence to give Him our confidence in spite of this.
– C.S. Lewis, The World’s Last Night

God I Look to You

God, I look to You
I won’t be overwhelmed
Give me vision to see things like You do
God I look to You
You’re where my help comes from
Give me wisdom, You know just what to do

God, I look to You
I won’t be overwhelmed
Give me vision to see things like You do
God I look to You
You’re where my help comes from
Give me wisdom, You know just what to do

And I will love You Lord my strength
And I will love You Lord my shield
And I will love You Lord my rock forever
All my days I will love You God

Hallelujah our God reigns
Hallelujah our God reigns
Hallelujah our God reigns
Forever all my days hallelujah

Hallelujah our God reigns
Hallelujah our God reigns
Hallelujah our God reigns
Forever all my days hallelujah

Hallelujah our God reigns
Hallelujah our God reigns
Hallelujah our God reigns
Forever all my days hallelujah
Forever all my days hallelujah
Forever all my days hallelujah